Quotes About Rez

#1. In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

Sherman Alexie

#2. I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Sherman Alexie

#3. To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

David Treuer

#4. The morning of the game, I'd woken up in my rez house so my dad could drive me the twenty-two miles to Reardan, so I could get on the team bus for the ride back to the reservation.
Crazy.

Sherman Alexie

#5. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

Sherman Alexie

#6. I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there. I

Kevin Hearne

#7. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.

Tracker's favorite time and music.

Mardi Oakley Medawar

#8. I think that grace and love always rattle people.

Rob Bell

#9. When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I'm very insecure.

Christina Ricci

#11. I can't blame it. Its whole purpose is to prevent the atmosphere from becoming lethal. Nobody at NASA thought, "Hey, let's allow a fatal lack of oxygen that will make everyone drop dead!

Andy Weir

#12. Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Timothy Zahn

#13. [Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling ... [yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Harriet Martineau

#14. There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.

Dave Eggers

#15. Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

Elizabeth Berkley

#16. Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

Sherry Turkle

#17. Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt.

Sara Sheridan

#18. Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#19. Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

Heather Anastasiu